SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1925.
THE CHINA MAIL.
FROCKS TO REMIND US
OF SUMMER
ENTENTBLE, OFF-A PLAID AND PRNes
CHINIKAY
THE
New Fashions, New Febrics, New Colours, Remind Us of Another Season-The Spirit of Summer Rules the Spring. Mode.
they
ihat ruminds us of it, and wets the dream colour as the print itself-in used to bring 1 Que imitations. Why should they to?
∙ing
of its
While it is yet somas weeks too unrly to, scarf-pocketed, too? The pattern of definitely plan the inid-summer werd the fabrio is somewhat indistinct, but role, there is much in the newest fashions enough of the plain material of the same
hoanty. This is truest *Posible of afternoon frocks, although there is, now and then. a rather usual ha dress that suggests the cottons of the warmer MOAYOD. We are always looking ahead, viowing the pitchann af today with m aye to its value in the scheme of things to-morrow, for in funksioni iarat to-niorrow
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has invaded the daytime mole. It is, to yoke and short aleove-all in one piece be sure, a "drosa fabris, but so impell and the inset godete that provide fullness. And the lace le dyed to match the frock ing is its beauty that it has gone so fur B to essay tailored role, making smitsolt. Lace may provide the apron line frocks of smart elegance. Nor is its front; the jabot; the long-sleeves; the tounces of the frock of urepe or silk. It beunty denied one because of its cost, for
has many 625, there are imitations to be had that ara
to be scorned becaus very lovely, and not to
are imitation,
too. Pearls are
are, to be sure, the frugile, fairy laces that wo associate with evening Chantilly, hand-made attire-thread-ru, Chaz
And there are luces heavy with
of Yaya schieving width beads and metals-embroidered . But there are also the heavier laces that the hem-many times without sacrificing combine with embroideries and batiste e for slimness the hititude in nerk and waist. the unparalleled charm of the lingerie line: the erratic ways of sleeves: these frock that may take on
3. jappear. nadillerant.
part of the mod. There is er KTO B And Inuen Klip. nuce with every xilken combina will chiffon and Georgette in varying degrees and a variety of fashions.
like
out that pattern. For any but the sam formal or formal occasions of the day thie little gown is most appropriate.
Inspired
the waves of the radio serx. by the other printed frocks designed for afternoon wear. 15, too, makes use of solid colour to make its pattern more determinate, heading both wide and nar- row bands with a narrower band of the
Sothen
No woman wiatura to spend her alliw.second colour of the print. There le anes for clothes on models that will be founes had a side ruffle, inspired perhaps wholly out of fushing before they aen by the jabot, and small buttons against a
dark, band provide a finish.
The fashion of the long sleeve con- worn out that she cannot abide the wear ing out procese.
We expect much of white, when nun. tinuos vogue.even in frocks designed for warm weather woor Filmy fabrics ex- sidera
linos in
posible nur éones, and we shall not be dis-
press that farlies perfectly, and a gown change will alur skirt retain is appointed, for there will be all white com grace, if shertoned? Can the sleeves ant and white in combination with of Georgette, with filmy lace at the nesk neellige his altered to a diferent style, colour. Hak applique on white crepe Jine, repede that lace in
start puff sleeves and a flounced skirt banded with if oeste to-morrow".
For the dress of today de chine, the soloir isten curricul even muat.do
further by the use of a grosgrain ribbem lace. Frocks of this type invariably The purchase of
of a frock for afternoon tin, proves elective. We have the well make use of the shoulder flower or boutali wear should be made with anmaner in liked Bishop serves in this role; a niorg in a colour or colours that har
monize with the gown itself. mind, for its fabric, its colour and soutier, and lower-than-orand waists silhouette must be right for the coming line.,,
Vart she little utility dress, ol some cotton fabric, should be chosen with the porch, the gardos, the morning stroll in mind, for it is only a matter of swift- pasing weeks to the time when heavy Inbrics, dark colours and" cumbersome details will have passed us by.
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Fundamentally A Matter Of Fabrics. Nothing Fortributes as much to the proplaces of setzer the prevalence of sheer aabríes, expecially the laces, chiffon and Geerteties that are being so gener,
unty would be difficult
to
dist the importance of Georgette, not only for entire dremes, be in com lant with other materials. It seems to til
place in every dress l sull Fashion WINT the better part of the paulay niste dress that Anda i Peart for de mat overdrosk.
1 the sum value in the cotton field, Dus we dus al cotton. Georgettes follow padly tie me fashions and meet the same med "ypical of the
19e of the
she dross
alda fabrics, we live pictured
chiffo
destructibla voile, the eout of a solid colour à the desip of print. Decidedly in its styling, it is, nevertheless, excrete start, the yout gamut with narrow loco that is reputed in the lingerie collar.
simple in its
There will be a very generál use of
th
theses destructible voiles, for they yone incront writy and intiqunta. both crapes and silks either in fexture palter. It will be noticed that the inndel in wist eembodies many of the nowout fashion fentures-flie, yoke ; tha wider skirt: the scarf. There in the znerist touch of haud work where the waist is joined to the yoke, natood by the sloova edging. Smarton is added by the use of plain volle on the skirt. Prints 1poreage Thair Popularity. With every passing day the printed tabrias gain in general favour. There, bu hardly a material that does not find them good-sil Boy, grapes, Georgette, chiffon Arautza Abee ping them more erously Derigara anek everywhere for
་ ཚ་ད patterna, and there is a sont tired revival of the wall-loved polka do When a print is not need for the whole drow it is made a partner with seme
fabris or becomes the trimming. What could be smartar, than the hitle gown of printed silk with its lindoredi pleated Houses Ita s claver pocket; and ite
High Value Set On Lacs,
There is a generous use of dyed h in both afternoon and evening module
Slipping ont af bounds, as it were, lace A frock si rich arepe usen lace for the
Détails Of The Newest Frocks. So far n one may judge, from the advance modes, the frock mode is to be as extremely versatile one Variety of line, fabric, colour and trimming will
and details are of interest muke The variou
phasis, however, on the long sleeve,
The yene seems to have taken the fashion world by storms, too, the it. They hath have to do with the ints faserest that designers are show Fig in the neckline, for mere attention is bire paid the neck and hem than all the reat of the frock together. The scarf, the Bowing tie. the ruffle and Home. version of the jabot are everywhere, and their presce in welcome after saveral Beans of the unrelieved neckline.
There is a generous mes of embroideries: of applique of bandings of various sorta; of pleats; of smooking to achieve full But it is notice non, and of flounces. able that all of the newest details have & tendency toward up-and-down lines.
which fa desirable,
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THE POUCH BAG
RETURNS TO FASHION
It is quite possible to set a certain valve on every accessory and every type of the same. True, thern Ara Certain fads that have only a brief and non-esses. is worth, but in general each decorative bit he datings virtue or lack of And it frequently happens that a fashion we like in wholly replaced by a
a fabion that wa do not in spite of the fact that there is room for both
it.
fine about the enslope that camat be daniad. So the silk-moire, brocudne. embroideries, especially petit, point, und boslud bage are most weun in this style. There have been very few beaded anvokin pur, anyway.
For the semi-formal frock the len thing lovelier than a pouch handbag of jxli-point, mounted on French gilt or axidized frames-javallod, perhap-und One cannot say that the envelope has lined, with will of harmonizing int,
actipsal
the pouch bag, but the The handiwork is exquisitely delicate ssd buen Isabion's favourite, and bow and the colourings, are akin to] for many women that amounts to the
DID YOU KNOW-
GIFT CASES.
Work for idle hands to do-if those bands are skiltul in Mtle" Things—in pro- vided in lengthis: af ribben of varying widthe. And for than bine, or tho graduate. there could be no gif lovelion or inord nelul than a singelis jure, or a set of cases for holding accessories. THAT the fashion of prints has been
for flat-lying No pattern is neede extended to include pongee, milk thut is.
cars, designed to linhl Realdkerchiere just at present,oming in for a deal af
neckwear, the neenery nigerie für They are. aftentin for the ensemble?
overnight Dr any of the little tliinga most often, Oriental in their inspiratiu.
that mattered easily and become mussed. FAT the Fiesta shawl of the Italian, the procOKA, And the idea, may be Denials-they reserve it for "high" daya carried out in the fawntrolir or and holiday-la, or bowrest. Amartest
album of the recipient, wrap? It is of soft, lightweight wool crepe in black or white is embroidered with wool flowers; and has wool fringe.
THAT the very latest Paris hat is a new version of the wall loved plache? It is made of faille silk and felt and sports a wing-like po-carce. So popular in it proving that one may find it in any ens at the new spring shades.
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trip
Ribbon or silk in this deniseal width and depth is not for foundation and timing. The case itself is made of half-inch wide ribbon woven.
min aur ont lattice fartion and a fep in shapel to full over and Easton, the ease. This day is decorated with ribbon flowers ar 11. bow
Heroamers of the ribbon,
Sachets le match ay provide the hind of parfume, or
or power of the favourites surnt may be used in the case ite between thin layers of zutton. A dozen Taxes will suggest thermalves for these) he had in the yellow, blue, pink, orchidemily mode and always dcceptable bita,of and green nuances of colour.
The ombro vogue has 'inpinuated its way
into the neokware mode. Jabot and collar sets of ombra Georgette are t
The
mefulness.
The Ensemble Includes:
the BLOUSE *
This is another unerchangeable feature of the sound's fashions.
semble mukes use of say and matches or harmonize, and fore often every fashion, lenture, that it can, so it than not the latter tips n slip or badlan inntides, a matter of couran, the top. blousa. It started out to be versatile and sided by lasing practical, for any mode that shows versatility is likely to prove The blouse contributes to woonomical.
variety and economy, for when it in a part of the ensemble, it is easy to sub
the bag may atitute one blbuer for another, Each type of
of ansamble ita
Mach is being made of the peamans blouse and model that sopy cortain desimble features of this type, Tho sleeve, expecially, in very generally on blouses that havns other redan blance, real or famail, to the peasant style. When shirrings a colourful Seemingly fearful of its position, the iar type of blouse, and there are, in leesas, they are a happy sreend
tho four of the former-the tailored the suspender first part of suspender
I the
a painting or tapestry. Such would love it.
same thing, But you will already have ) sarva to solve a gift problem-abrida conturne an entirely different pic-stitch, embroideries automo
boticed that there is a wider choice, this Reno in pratically everything, so it is
zange that the porch
bag is return.
Doi
tha
slarize engelspo bag takes on new chartoe profit. } gunera: the suspender, and the two ensemble.". Blouses, of the tailored type It was about dus for that ing, a will, any fashion, by com plecu, jumpor dress. Some faw are inter also complement. this style of skirt return, but will heartily welcome and they and embroiderios good, the changeable, hut for the most part, they
No
No and
it, for it possessos a cartain flexible roominess that the envelope does not, eJui in no form does it wholly loan a certain tailored appearance. And there are times when one longs for elegance with out tailoring.
If mey
be that there is' ab appearance of fimbriasz shapes this is attributab the newest proch attributable to the envelope hand book, but this deferenos is due successful fashion, anyway.
It would seam that they have corne back in fabrics, rather thun lantliam per- haps becsues that is where their partien lar type in most needed. For the teillent or any strictly tailored costume thure is s
Many of the lovelient has re
latter showing motifs of Oriental origin koop to their particular type-proving more often than any other. Two fabrice that, they are, Indead, particular, Rough. are used. the one plain and the other ly, we have the long, taxic blouse; ine ornamental; muli-coloured suede in wilored blouse, not infrequently In patchwork style ie effective, and ribbon saque effe; and the embroideries are used on some, "g
ne may not avoid a bit of a refarunce te the header bag strang hold it. of the hardbag mode. The newest im portations introduce new shapes, 24165 iras, few intalors and new ttings. Try feature new colouringe and show palierna encrusted witir steel beads er nade gay with briliants. The envelops styles have handler, bonded also.
A REMODELLING HINT.
„Panola and droporion for the straight; ; Portretly straight postala pstanding.
jumper
the first group come the very long costums tunics that are really dresses though much less expensive. Ona may wear them "over a slip and no achieve a dress, when they are not in use with thei skirt of the sult. They employ attrac tive fabrics and trimmings and are, for the et cultural, especially when
of the popular.
printed no getting away from
the latter'i
'la from any Aeld.
of fashio
There
When these blouses are
re seven-nighths pont: is length; as they unmily are, if the long, they
flums, godet in-
All
y necklines; and
the shipcaftips of the dress moda.
linn now the bas grown wrazim, but free collar to hemline. my utterly At times tie fabrics or two colours arn persist in its wearing qualities-here is change the falle indexion of a frock, comlined, and there is lavish
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an idea for home use. It is not impera." wid tingnan, very mroach, indeed. | Ambroideries und
in alit the skirt into: bath
السعد
of both
May
the latter opening over gudėta podlogath
live that the fabric: need be) a porfeët i Arathor izlog, in
nich for this material of the dres
questión. it may contrast shed or dronteral that in to face
chosen to" bérmonize-touches of it used the panels themselves. When the new i
of shaert altogether short of
shorter binne depends" for lus
on two separate temblor tailored and, with short
"on, siseyes, and, at the neckline, fo-con-t, fabrio in:a pinin; stripo, print of what a fullnd the aporta dresa in'.
plate the
the picture. This season's molela make much of two fabrics and two colours
waste pilka dot pattarur,it,ray heat,
med to collar the waist and half the two pieres. For the former, there will tailored binties, though 16 will hot
tailored type of
In combination be vad in plate the skirt may be cut into patalk and tual into the wathand but fail straight
The drager
„prom- fashion și in pogings" from shoulder
porn over a straight sily, täida keeping to
or the severdy streky Love" more becoming tha Akureyri, Then there are. Por amit fabric;
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help the
that the ligh